HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY with 'Angelyne' stars Martin Freeman, Lukas Gage, and Alex Karpovsky about Emmy Rossum's transformation and extra.
Peacock’s new restricted collection Angelyne explores the really wild and over-the-top lifetime of the Hollywood billboard queen. Emmy Rossum undergoes a stunning transformation to play the popular culture icon of the LA scene. Stars Martin Freeman, Lukas Gage, and Alex Karpovksy spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife about Emmy’s metamorphosis into the character.
“Properly, for me, it was implausible since you had been simply offered with a factor that's as near the character as humanly doable, I feel, visually and performance-wise,” Martin stated. “So for me, it was like doing scenes with Angelyne. Possibly it was a bit extra organized than doing scenes with Angelyne, I don’t know, nevertheless it was like being simply offered with this implausible character as a result of it felt to me like it's so shut.”
Lukas admitted that he appears as much as Emmy after watching Shameless and stated “it was very easy for me to distinguish Emmy from Angelyne as a result of she was really a totally totally different individual. It felt very separate.”
Alex raved that Emmy’s transformation was “mind-blowing.” He famous that “for an actor to have the ability to carry out and emote via a extremely huge, thick layer of latex or rubber or no matter and never overheat can also be actually, actually, actually arduous to do. I really feel you need to over-express your self simply to specific your self. To try this on a degree that’s intuitive and reactionary and within the second is very difficult. To not point out sitting within the make-up chair for five hours simply to start out your day, which might drive me loopy. So for all of these causes, I feel it’s really spectacular.”
Martin, Lukas, and Alex play males Angelyne encounters all through her life. Their characters turn into transfixed by Angelyne in their very own approach. Martin performs a billboard printer named Harold who helps Angelyne “get her picture on the market. I feel he’s beguiled by her self-confidence. Additionally, she has this fashion of talking and this fashion of participating with you and doubtless extra significantly with males perhaps as a result of she is aware of the way to play that recreation of simply drawing you in.”
Alex stars as Jeff Glasner, a reporter trying to profile the mysterious girl who has captivated LA. Alex stated that Jeff is intrigued “by the truth that she’s capable of preserve a way of thriller about her.” Lukas performs Max Allen, a younger filmmaker who desires to make a documentary about Angelyne. For Max, Angelyne is considerably of an inspiration to him.
“He’s not comfy or assured in his expertise but. She says one thing within the collection I feel to him, ‘Shyness equals worry, and worry is simply false proof showing actual.’ So for him, it’s getting over his timid methods and stepping out of his field in his consolation zone and to shine like Angelyne,” Lukas informed HollywoodLife.
All three actors didn’t know an excessive amount of about Angelyne previous to signing on for the collection. “I wasn’t actually acquainted with her in any respect,” Martin admitted. Alex grew up on the east coast, however he revealed that Angelyne began to “seep into my consciousness” when he hung out in LA. “And the extra that I knew about her, the extra I wished to learn about her,” Alex stated.
Lukas is from Southern California, so he had probably the most familiarity with Angelyne. Nonetheless, he “by no means actually acquired to know her story” till the Peacock collection. Stream Angelyne on Peacock beginning Could 19.